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In your eyes,
I can see sorrow;
In your face,
I read disappointment
From past years;
Your lips shiver
In utter disbelief;
Your looks paint
A gloomy picture
Of uncertain tomorrow;
I write this
From a troubled heart...

When the sun
Settles behind the horizon
As darkness beckons
And the birds
Return to their nests
Then we will recount
Our exploits
And render accounts accordingly:
Of broken shells of egg
Of scars of tortoise
Like market women...

I have been following keenly the
campaign to flush out illegal miners in the mining areas and I have been amazed
with some of the discussions. Sometimes, in our effort to find solution to some
of the problems that confront us, we end up creating room for people to exploit
because of the haste with which we approach the problem.
In Ghana, the way we approach
‘human’ problems with the aim of solving it is simply appalling, to say the
least. We often fail to think through the problem and the intended approach or
methods thoroughly to identify the best way out. In other words, we don’t
define the problem properly. As a result, we are unable to permanently solve
the socio-economic problems that confront us. It’s no wonder the approach we
use to ‘solve’ the problem only last for a short while that’s why in no time
the very problem we claimed to have ‘solved’ suddenly resurfaces again in the
same or different form.
‘Galamsey’ simply means surface
mining. The 'galamsey' operators ha…

Is the world watching the attempts being made by the U.S to 'attack' North Korea over the alleged nuclear ambition?

Former leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussain, was accused of possessing weapons of mass destruction which later turned out to be untrue. U.S attacked that country and the repercussions are still there for us to see.

Are we going to see the same thing repeated in North Korea?I hope the UN is watching and would remain quiet as usual because it receives most of its funding from the US. Perhaps the UN has failed the world!

Assad of Syria was accused of using chemical weapon on his own people when it was reported that the said weapon including others have been surrendered. Yet US went ahead to launch missiles attack on Syria killing innocent civilians.

Does it mean that the US has the right to kill wherever and whenever it can? And when others do same, then it becomes an issue of crimes against humanity?

The National Health Insurance Scheme
(NHIS) has come under severe criticism by the opposition New Patriotic Party
(NPP) in particular. In the estimation of the NPP, the scheme has ‘collapsed’.
Analyst and government officials have put up defence for the scheme insisting
that if the scheme as so described to have collapsed would still have people
being registered onto it including even members of the NPP. Some of these
analysts and NPP commentators or relatives also rely on the NHIS for medical
attention and their experience at the various health facilities they may have visited
certainly could have formed the basis of their analysis. So they may not be
entirely wrong in their conclusion.
Accessing healthcare with the
NHIS card comes with some technical challenges especially with regards to where
a patient is receiving healthcare falls under primary, secondary or tertiary status.
If you are NHIS card holder, you can’t access direct healthcare in hospitals
referred to as tertiary hos…